June 2010 Chat thread
Fleet Owner
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From: Drummonds, TN USA
I could sure get interested in a thing like that.
I've been bustin' nuts on an early 80's Bronco the last few days, and it looks like we're in the backstretch on it now, so I've been a little out of touch.
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From: Maryville
The EPA is what stands in the way of real diesel advancement, the demand for 2012 is no emissions at all, you are supposed to be able to breath the exhaust without harm, thank you US government. The diesel is the future, it gets high mileage and efficiency is twice that of gas engines, but the engineering is overseas. Mom and dads neighbors son went to a tech college up north, they had a project to design an engine for graduation credit, the school holds the patent, they had a few overseas cars to work on. There is a diesel Dodge Nitro, wicked sucker, not to mention he was driving one little car around, was given a gas card, it was a project car, dad said the diesel sure sounded different that what he's used to. Matt, the guy from school, said there are SOHC and DOHC diesel in development, smaller than the ones we have here, and they'll outperform them, but again, only available in Europe.
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